An Actor's Work on a Role by Konstantin Stanislavski,Jean Benedetti

By Konstantin Stanislavski,Jean Benedetti


An Actor’s paintings on a Role is Konstantin Stanislavski’s exploration of the practice session procedure, utilizing the options of his seminal actor education approach to the duty of bringing fact to one’s selected position.



Originally released over part a century in the past as Creating a Role, this publication used to be the 3rd in a deliberate trilogy – after An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, now mixed in An Actor’s Work – during which Stanislavski units out his mental, actual and useful imaginative and prescient of actor training.



This new translation from popular student Jean Benedetti not just contains Stanislavski’s unique teachings, yet can be provided with worthwhile supplementary fabric within the form of transcripts and notes from the rehearsals themselves, reconfirming 'The approach' because the cornerstone of actor education.

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